Senior-Security Engineering Manager, Product Security Foundations - Slack

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.Job CategorySoftware EngineeringJob DetailsAbout SalesforceWe’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.About Slack Product SecurityOur Product Security Team supports the following tenet of Slack’s mission: make people’s working lives more secure. We’re serious about building a simple-to-use yet secure product, and most importantly, protecting our customers’ data. We take a systematic approach to security and strive to ensure we provide low-friction, and high-impact security across everything we do. As a member of the Product Security team, you care about shipping secure products and ensuring the way in for the bad actors is never through the front door (or the back)! You are passionate about enabling our developers to ship secure products. You think about your team as not fixing bugs but developing effective ways to prevent them. Your work will directly impact the way millions of people, teams, and businesses get things done using Slack.Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are inquisitive, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking, and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, read on ahead!OverviewSlack’s Product Security Foundations (PSF) group is a dedicated software engineering team within Product Security focused on streamlining the process of secure development, ensuring it is user-friendly for all engineers. A critical aspect of this is creating standardized methods, libraries, tools, and services for engineers across Slack. Join an existing, high-performance, thoughtful team and help make the secure choice the easy one for all of the engineers at Slack! Examples of work this team owns include authorization frameworks that support Slack APIs, core authentication libraries, safe image and attachment processing, in addition to other secure by default libraries.ResponsibilitiesManage a team of highly experienced software security engineersOwn security-critical areas of the backend such as authorization, authentication, and cryptographyPromote active, continuous learning and improvement within your team. Cultivate team members’ growth through feedback, coaching, and career development.Manage multiple concurrent projects while effectively solving problems that cross product boundaries.Establish strong partnerships and champion quality throughout a cross-functional organization to support the best possible security and engineering outcomes.Work closely with other Slack Product Security teams to identify, track and remediate risk.Support developer productivity, through training, driving solutions and tooling.Own key metrics around security incidents, and risk trends in the Slack codebase.Drive a security-first approach to software development and delivery.Accountable for on-call incident escalation coverage and ProdSec incident response.Required Skills and QualificationsBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related technical field required, or equivalent practical experience.Minimum 2 years of experience managing a team of software engineers.Strong expertise in software engineering best practices.Strong written and verbal communication skills, with high attention to detail.Ability to communicate with empathy when delivering constructive feedback to engineers.Experience collecting and analyzing feedback from developers.Proven track record of growing new developers.Interest in leading a security software team focused on the backend and foundational areas of the codebase.Preferred SkillsA demonstrated track record of cross-organizational projects.You've used Slack and are excited to make it better.Excellence as a great teammate who thrives in a collaborative environment.Be a constant learner who looks to solve interesting and challenging problems.Slack is where work happens. It connects you with the people and apps you work with every day, no matter where you are or what you do. We believe everyone deserves to work in a welcoming, respectful, and empathetic culture. We live by our values and hire accordingly. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to Slack's values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal-opportunity employer and a fun place to work. Come do the best work of your life here at Slack.AccommodationsIf you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.Posting StatementAt Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at and explore our company benefits at .Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.Salesforce welcomes all.For Colorado-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $160,700 to $221,000.Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.SummaryLocation: Texas - Remote; Nevada - Remote; Colorado - DenverType: Full time